let s be clear tonight. he is leading all the fake new circus at cnn. as we said last night, all the blame for what is happening at cnn should be on his shoulders. he has positioned his network to be one of the mainstream media leaders and trying to take down the president. this anti-trump haight, he needs to be accountable. tonight, i m going to do jeff zucker a favor. hey, jeff, you want to restore any sense of credibility at your network, you need to stop trying to destroy the presidency of donald trump. and be on a jihad agenda to attack. if you re willing to lie and collude to do that, really? where are your ethics?oc instead, here s my advice, jeff. start focusing on the six massive scandals that should really be investigated but are not being reported by your network. james comey, admitting under oath that he had his friend leak a memo to the new york times hoping it would lead to a special counsel. by the way, jeff, look into the records act that might ve been violated. that
president? sara huckabee sanders was asked that very question and didn t give a very clear answer. still more questions about why the president decided to go this route. all right. thank you very much. if trump s tweet was an attempt to intimidate comey, it seems to have come back to haunt the president. earlier this month, comey testified he quickly realized recordings could support his side of what happened between the two in the oval office. comey later had a friend leak his detailed memos to a reporter which set off a series of events that led to robert mueller s appointment to head up the russia probe. pruesident trump now weighig in and refusing to give the special counsel a vote of confidence. should he recuse himself? well, he s very, very good friends with comey which is very bothersome. but he s also we re going to have to see. we re going to have to see in terms look, there has been no obstruction, there has been no collusion, there has been
tweet denying that he has tapes seems to suggest that someone else might. that he might be being surveilled. that s an idea that sanders dismissed. what still isn t clear is why the president sent that tweet out in the first place. many viewed it as an attempt to threaten comey. was it, or was it an attempt to make sure that comey spoke truthfully about his conversations with the president? sara huckabee sanders was asked that question and didn t give a very clear answer. so still more questions about why the president decided to go this route. athena jones, thank you. if trump s tweet was an attempt to intimidate comey, it seems to have come back to haunt the president. earlier this month, comey testified he quickly realized rcordings could support his side of what happened between the two in the oval office. comey later had a friend leak his detailed memos to a reporter which, of course, set off a series of events that led to robert mueller s appointment to head up the russia pro
investigated, but from what we know he s not been officially notified that he is being investigated. so he s accepting this. why do you think he s doing this? what does this mean for this case? well, what will be interesting to see is whether john dowd has any access to donald trump s twitter feed because donald trump s twitter feed gets him in trouble precisely because of this. he lets things slip. remember comey or having his friend leak to the new york times just started with a trump tweet about, you know, i might have tapes and we should see what s going on. do you think he s pushing for rob rosenstein here to recuse himself or is he intimating that he might the reporting being potentially a firing or what have you? i mean, we see a lot of reporting that he s raging at his television and occasionally that s one of the targets of his rage, but everyone around him and more importantly than that a lot of high profile senators including republicans have sent warning shots acros
executive privilege. only the president can invoke it in trying to stop them from testifying, but what we know from the supreme court s decision in united states versus nixon in 1974 is that they are the courts are not going to stop a criminal investigation and are not going to limit the questioning of potential witnesses. so i think executive privilege, even if the trump administration invoked is not going to be able to stop it. today, john, we have video. mueller had a meeting where senators bufr and warner, obviously, the chairmen of the senate intelligence committee. he is going full bore ahead. yep. erin, i would have to say to you that this is exactly what james comey had in mind. right. when he had his friend leak that memo about the president asking him if he could go easy on flynn, because he knew that it would lead to the mueller